The Lean Anthology: A Practical Primer in Continual Improvement - Couverture souple

Goldberg, Rebecca; Weiss, Elliott N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1482246791 ISBN 13 : 9781482246797

Editeur : Apple Academic Press Inc., 2014

Synopsis

The Lean Anthology: A Practical Primer in Continual Improvement presents operations management case studies that illustrate a Lean process improvement journey. Ideal for non-engineers, adult learners, and corporate or business education settings, this book can help you and your organization understand and apply Lean practices as part of a plan for saving money, generating revenues, or freeing up resources—particularly in settings not traditionally associated with Lean.

The stories are easy to understand, simple accounts of everyday people negotiating life. The characters observe and integrate the principles of Lean into their personal and professional lives. Each Lean case study will help you understand and apply a different approach to the "relentless pursuit of the strategic elimination of waste."

The stories are organized into a framework for implementing a Lean transformation called The Five Cs: Customer, Capability, Control, Coordination, and Context/Culture. These are the five stages of strategic operations design and improvement. The Five Cs framework is a new approach to understanding a Lean journey that you can apply in many settings. The Five Cs framework can help you become more effective in both your personal and professional lives.

The book includes explanations with each case study, as well as brain teasers suitable for team discussion. These tools supply readers—even those without an operations management background—with an intuitive understanding of how to create value by eliminating waste.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rebecca Goldberg is a strategy and operations consultant with more than a decade of experience. She has extensively published articles and case studies in the Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business & Economy, and in the University of Virginia and Columbia University case collections. She writes in the areas of strategy, operations, and technology life cycles, as well as in negotiation, team dynamics, and collaboration. She has consulted with significant global clients in a variety of industries, including health care delivery, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, integrated technology solutions, professional services, insurance, and the military. She holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business; a BA from Tufts University, magna cum laude with highest thesis honors; and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her two sons. Please visit http: //www.goldbergstrategic.com/ for more information.

Elliott N. Weiss is the Oliver Wight Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Weiss teaches in the operations area and is the author of numerous articles in the areas of production management and operations research; he has extensive consulting experience, for both manufacturing and service companies, in the areas of production scheduling, workflow management, logistics, total productive maintenance, and Lean implementation. He is the author of over 175 cases and technical notes in the area of operations management.

Before coming to Darden in 1987, Weiss was on the faculty of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He has held visiting appointments at the Graduate School of Management at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is married with four children and one grandchild.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Apple Academic Press Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1482246791
• ISBN 13: 9781482246797
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Twery Michael
• Nombre de pages: 225
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible